The focus of the review is on population ecology. We have thus combined intellectual inputs from ecologists studying both population cycles and outbreaks in an attempt to achieve a synthesis. In our discussion, we highlight ten questions, the answers to which are essential for improving our perce...
Group psychotherapy is regularly accessed in mental health care, not only because of the cost saving that occurs by reducing clinician-to-client ratios, but also because of the therapeutic benefit of interpersonal dynamics and learning that takes place within the group context. Yalom and Leszcz (Th...
In the winter of 2022/2023, excess death estimates for Germany indicated a 10% elevation, which has led to questions about the significance of this increase in mortality. Given the inherent errors in demographic forecasting, the reliability of estimating a 10% deviation is questionable. This resea...
Family dynamics Migration Population aging. Nationality:Applicants must be South African. Number of Scholarships:Two scholarships are available. There are a limited number of PhD Scholarships made available by the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Economic Development, held by Professor Pranit...
Its questionnaire contains key questions about respondents' age identity and their planning behavior for old age. We use data from the 2014, 2016, and 2018 waves of the CLASS. We drop observations with missing values for (in)dependent variables (3943 respondents out of 19,899 respondents), as...
Using an online survey made it possible to construct an adaptive structure so that respondents were not presented with irrelevant questions. Validation on each questionnaire page required the completion of all questions before moving on to reduce missing answers. 2.2.1. Conceptual framework Initially, ...
The fact is that production is ultimately controlled by a tiny elite who are forced by the competitive dynamics of the capitalist system in which they operate to constantly seek profit. This reality is what's behind ecological cri- ses. It is what blinds elite economic planners to ecologi- ...
Brain and heart dynamics. Gewerbestrasse: Springer Nature Switzerland AG; 2020. p. 871–80. World Health Organization (WHO). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): staying active. 2020. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-...
The answers to these questions require an understanding of the basic demographic processes of birth and death and possibly other processes by which individuals might arrive or depart from the population, such as immigration and/or emigration. In this chapter, we consider models in which a single,...
Our empirical analysis uses the pairfam (Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics), a large representative dataset from Germany, to examine the link between the Big Five personality traits and sexuality. The results provide evidence that the Big Five personality traits play an imp...